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A review by iswendle
Prodigy by Marie Lu
3.0
Prodigy continues in line with its preceding book and feels like a YA novel with some clichés but very appealing worldbuilding. It's a fun read, though not without its flaws.
Where Legend was a cool story about a boy surviving on the streets, Prodigy moves toward a book about a bigger story of rebellion. A logical step for the story, but the writing style does not really suit a carefully crafted story of rebellion and warfare and politics. More than I would like this book is filled with a very awkward romance arc and filler conversation and repetition. Halfway through the book it is pretty obvious which way the story is going, but after every perspective switch we first suffer through multiple pages of repetition of the previous chapter, just from another point of view. This, along with the in my opinion awkward and forced romance arc between characters just made it difficult to fly through the book. Something I easily did in the first part of the trology as that felt like an action-packed story about an orphan running over the rooftops of a dystopian slum.
I still enjoyed Prodigy, but the change of focus from a narrative driven 2 person perspective story to a character driven story, really made the change of pace between the first and second book terrible for me.
Where Legend was a cool story about a boy surviving on the streets, Prodigy moves toward a book about a bigger story of rebellion. A logical step for the story, but the writing style does not really suit a carefully crafted story of rebellion and warfare and politics. More than I would like this book is filled with a very awkward romance arc and filler conversation and repetition. Halfway through the book it is pretty obvious which way the story is going, but after every perspective switch we first suffer through multiple pages of repetition of the previous chapter, just from another point of view. This, along with the in my opinion awkward and forced romance arc between characters just made it difficult to fly through the book. Something I easily did in the first part of the trology as that felt like an action-packed story about an orphan running over the rooftops of a dystopian slum.
I still enjoyed Prodigy, but the change of focus from a narrative driven 2 person perspective story to a character driven story, really made the change of pace between the first and second book terrible for me.